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Key cap of keyboard and method for making same

A production method and technology of keycaps, which are applied to electrical components, electric switches, circuits, etc., can solve the problems of limited pattern application, complicated manufacturing process, and falling off, and achieve the effect of improving easy falling off and good industrial utilization

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-03-16
LITE ON TECH CORP
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[0004] 1. The characters, symbols or patterns on it are usually made by printing, so after a period of use, especially when the computer keyboard is used frequently every day, it is very easy to fall off due to continuous touch or sweat erosion, often causing users troubles in use
[0005] 2. The surface of the general keycap is usually slightly concave, or provided with protruding punctuation or ribs for better tactile feeling and operation. Its shape is not flat, which will inevitably lead to difficulties in printing, and it is easy to cause deviation. Increase the ratio of defective products
[0006] 3. In order to make it easy for users to distinguish, the symbols on the keycaps are usually distinguished by different colors, which requires pad printing in batches, which will easily cause offset and processing difficulties
[0007] 4. The surface of the keycap is not easy to clean, and the cleaning agent or cleaning wax may clean the printed text on the surface
However, the manufacturing process of this technology is also complicated, and the application on patterns is still limited
[0010] Therefore, how to propose a novel computer keyboard for the above-mentioned problems, to improve the shortcoming that the traditional keycap symbols are easy to fall off, has been the ardent expectation of users for a long time, and if a fast and convenient symbol printing method can be provided, It has good industrial applicability. Based on many years of experience in research and development of computer peripheral related products, the inventors have thought and improved ideas, poored their personal professional knowledge, and finally developed a kind of Improved structure of keyboard keycap and manufacturing method thereof

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[0034] Such as figure 1 Shown, is the key cap 1 of the keyboard of the present invention, especially refers to be applied on the computer keyboard, and it comprises a key 14, and this key 14 is printed with predetermined text / symbol 42, ground color 44 or figure 46, and provides A protective layer 12 is placed on a plurality of completed keys 14, and the protective layer 12 is thermally melted and attached to the keys 14 by means of heating and hot pressing, and then its edges are trimmed, thereby The characters / symbols 42, background color 44 or graphics 46 on the keycap 1 can prevent falling off or fading due to soaking in sweat.

[0035] Such as figure 2 As shown, its production process is:

[0036] First, step 100, provide button 14;

[0037] Step 200, printing required patterns, such as text / symbol 42, background color 44, or pattern 46 on the key 14;

[0038] Step 300, providing a protective layer 12 on a plurality of buttons 14, wherein the buttons 14 can be placed...

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A key cap of keyboard and its manufacture method is disclosed, whose key cap includes a keying and a protective layer and the designed signal sign or figure are printed on the keying or word, sign or figure are printed on the back of protective layer which is then adjacent to the keying. The manufacture method of key cap includes supply a protective layer, printed figure on the back of protective layer, prepare a keying lower die of keyboard with at last one die cavity and make the protective layer move to the corresponding position of the keying lower die; prepare a keying upper die of keyboard with at least one hole for injecting plastic raw material; inject plastic raw material into the hole; get keying out. By using the method, sign of key cap has more abundant installation and is not easy to fall and its quick and convenient.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a keycap of a keyboard and a manufacturing method thereof, in particular to a structure and a method applied to touch parts printed with symbols on the keycap of a computer keyboard, so that the symbols of the keycap are more diverse and changeable. And protect it from falling off. Background technique [0002] Due to the popularization and application of computers, keyboards for inputting data are becoming more and more important, especially for diversified and multi-functional input, the symbols on it are often arranged multiple times on a keycap, such as English letters, numbers, or patterns etc. [0003] But there is following shortcoming usually in present common key cap: [0004] 1. The characters, symbols or patterns on it are usually made by printing, so after a period of use, especially when the computer keyboard is used frequently every day, it is very easy to fall off due to continuous touch or sweat erosio...

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IPC IPC(8): H01H11/00H01H13/14
Inventor 李东学
Owner LITE ON TECH CORP
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